Michael Bay has signed on to produce and potentially direct action thriller Sabotage.

Based on a non-fiction book proposal by Neal Bascomb, the 1942-set movie would follow the true story of a group of Norwegian refugee commandos as they fight to stop Hitler's development of a nuclear bomb.

After a brilliant scientist flees the Gestapo in order to inform the Allies of the Nazis' plans for a nuclear program, the group embark on an apparent suicide mission to attack the mountainside fortress where the bomb is being developed.

Bascomb's full proposal is titled Sabotage: A Genius Scientist, His Band of Young Commandos, and the Mission to Kill Hitler's Super Bomb.